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Recent advancements in the taste transduction mechanism, identification, and characterization of taste components

Pinhu Wang1, Xiang Ye2, Jun Liu3

  • 1School of Pharmacy, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, PR China.

Food Chemistry
|September 11, 2023
PubMed

Keywords:
IdentificationIsolationQuantificationTaste componentsTransduction

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